Why China has no new middle class: cadres, managers and entrepreneurs / David S.G. Goodman
Class, stratum and group: the politics of description and prescription / Yingjie Guo
Market transition, wealth and status claims / Xiaowei Xang
Richer than before: the cultivation of middle class taste: education choices in urban China / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Zheng Yi
Corporate CEOs as cultural promoters / Colin Hawes
From coal black to hospital white: new welfare entrepreneurs and the pursuit of a cleaner status / Beatriz Carrillo
Entrepreneurial women: personal wealth, local politics and tradition / Minglu Chen
The professional middle classes: management and politics / Ivan Cucco
Professors, doctors, and lawyers: the variable wealth of the professional classes / Jingqing Yang
The forest city: homeownership and new wealth in Shenyang / Luigi Tomba and Beibei Tang
The Shanghai-Hong Kong connection: fine jewelry consumption and the demand for diamonds / Carolyn Cartier
Issue-based politics: feminism with Chinese characteristics or the return of bourgeois feminism? / Louise Edwards
Men, women and the maid: at home with the new rich / Wanning Sun
Advanced producers or moral polluters: China's bureaucrat-entrepreneurs and sexual corruption / Elaine Jeffreys.